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Are you tired after studying hard?American country
music will take you away for a while. The guitars and songs will take you to
mountains and fields there.
Country is simple music. It talks of
everyday life and feelings. It's the spirit of America, easy to understand, slow
and basic.
Country is a traditional kind of music
from the southern states of America. It was the folk music of the American
countryside. Many of the songs tell about the lives of farmers. They talk about
love, crops or death.
Rural life can be hard, so the words are
often sad. At first, people played the music only at family parties. But it
became more popular. In the 1920s, people played country songs on the radio, and
they made them into records.
When people moved to towns and cities
to look for work, they took their music with them. Country music continued to
change and became popular across America.
John Denver was one of America's most
famous country singers in the 1970s. His song Take Me Home, Country Roads is
wellknown and people still play it today.